Film crew set to blast downtown Vancouver with gunfire and fireballs

The Fringe film set outside 1210 Jervis in Vancouver, B.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. John Noble, who plays Dr. Walter Bishop, sat in plain, studying his lines from a thick book of paper.Katya Holloway
/ Vancouver Sun

The Fringe film set outside 1210 Jervis in Vancouver, B.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. John Noble, who plays Dr. Walter Bishop, sat in plain, studying his lines from a thick book of paper.Katya Holloway
/ Vancouver Sun

Much of the preparation for the night shoot of TV series Fringe involves setting up the lights. The entire 500-block of Burrard St in Vancouver was lit up with street-level lights on Aug. 18, 2010.Nigel Horsely
/ Special to The Sun

The hit TV series 'Fringe' is being shot in Vancouver in August 2010 and the action centred on West Hastings Street where debris from an 'accident' included a bus and cars. Here is one of the 'victims'.Special to The Sun
/ Nigel Horsley

Much of the preparation for the night shoot of TV series Fringe involves setting up the lights. The entire 500-block of Burrard St in Vancouver was lit up with street-level lights on Aug. 18, 2010.Nigel Horsely
/ Special to The Sun

Fringe' character, FBI agent 'Olivia Dunham', played by Australian actress Anna Torv, checking for a heartbeat in an 'accident' victim in a scene from one of the forthcoming episodes of the hit sci-fi TV series. Pic taken in August 2010.Nigel Horsley
/ Special to The Sun

Hit TV series Fringe characters 'Olivia Dunham' and 'Charlie Francis' coming to the aid of a crash victim in a scene from one of the episodes being shot in Vancouver in Aug. 2010.Nigel Horsley
/ Special to The Sun

Much of the preparation for the night shoot of TV series Fringe involves setting up the lights. The entire 500-block of Burrard St in Vancouver was lit up with street-level lights on Aug. 18, 2010.Nigel Horsely
/ Special to The Sun

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VANCOUVER -- Downtown Vancouver will erupt with gunfire and fireballs tonight during filming of an upcoming episode for TV series Fringe.

Crew are already on site at 212 E. Georgia Street preparing for the interior and exterior scenes. According to a notice from FB2 Films Inc., cameras will start rolling at around 6 p.m. on the exterior of Cafe Brixton, involving FBI agents sitting inside the coffee shop.

“They are confronted by an unusual phenomenon from which they have to escape. There will be both special effect gunfire and a controlled special effect fireball associated with this work,” reads a statement to neighbours.

After 6 p.m., crew will be filming scenes on the exterior of Cafe Brixton between Main Street and the alley until around 1 a.m.

The sci-fi action will continue at around 2 p.m. Thursday until the wee hours of Friday morning. Filming will begin on the sidewalk and the street outside Cafe Brixton, where crew will film the “aftermath of the fireball.”

After 8 p.m., filming will continue indoors until around 4 a.m.

“One of the scenes filmed inside will be of an actor ‘shooting’ out a window,” reads the statement. “This special effect will sound like a series of firecrackers going off.”

HUGE FANS

Die-hard Fringe fans from around the globe have been keeping vigil outside downtown Vancouver film sets this week, waiting patiently for the action to unfold.

On Monday and Tuesday, looky-loos — hailing from as far away as Australia, Germany, Switzerland and South Africa — perched themselves across from the set at 1210 Jervis, watching for countless hours as scenes unfolded again, and again, and again.

Their dedication paid off.

A few had their photos taken with homegrown hero Joshua Jackson (Peter Bishop), who arrived on set for the first time on Tuesday afternoon. Others had snaps with John Noble, who plays Dr. Walter Bishop. On Tuesday, he sat in plain view of fans, studying his lines from a thick book of paper. He took a break to walk over to fans to say hello, crack some jokes and pose for photographs.

Aussie actress Anna Torv, a.k.a. Olivia Dunham, was also at the housing complex, seen often in the courtyard.

Hollywood North is a hotbed of activity at the moment, with blockbuster flick Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, filming in B.C. right now until Sept. 27.

The new Superman movie Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner, will be here from Sept. 21 to Jan. 21.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 is filming now until Aug. 31.

A star-studded cast of The Company You Keep will be here in September. Robert Redford will direct and act in the political thriller, which includes Transformers hunk Shia LaBeouf as an ambitious young reporter.

Hugh Jackman and the cast of Wolverine 2 will be in town Nov. 11 to March 1, 2012.

A number of TV movies and TV series are also in the works.

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